September 4: From San Francisco to Carmel

Sign at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
San Jose Municipal Rose Garden: America’s Best Rose Garden

Mile 6257 – Carmel, California.  Woke up to fog in San Francisco, had breakfast with potatoes sauteed in red wine (where do you find that?), and then bailed out the car.  The combined cost of parking in Vancouver and San Francisco is about 50% of what we spent on gas so far.

Drove back into the sun to Stanford and San Jose to find more old postcard landmarks and to have lunch with former colleague Bill Eisenberg and his wife, Jen, and then drove back into the fog at Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Vintage Postcard Project: September 4: San Jose and Stanford, California/a>

[Photograph © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]